We received W648 from the production team this week. Upon inspection of this wafer, is has a higher density of pinholes than we have been seeing lately (>3 pinholes/slit compared to 0 or 1/slit) and seems to show a return…
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Karl's Air Permeability and Burst Pressure Raw Data
In this week’s meeting there was a request to have Maryna and I make our BP and AP data available online. While Maryna is at the Gordon Conference I thought I would upload what I have. The attached spreadsheet contains…
Conditioned DMEM – Discoloration
Motivated by Tom’s suggestion at lab meeting on Tuesday, I tried “conditioning” the DMEM+10%FBS before adding the chips. “Conditioning” just means that I allowed the DMEM+10%FBS to equilibrate in the incubator for an hour before adding the chips to test…
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AFM of polyimide covered wafers
There is AFM images that were taken in Krauss’s lab before I left. I wasn’t able to see open pores. There were samples from two wafers (213 and 398) with deposited polymer. On samples from first wafer, the polyimide deposited…
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Electro-osmosis and Electrophoresis Discoloration
Electro-osmosis: Yesterday I tried to study the electro-osmosis-like phenomenon that we were observing with the electrophoretic cell. All membranes again had pinholes. I set up the wells as before, but I would remove 50ul from the well which the negative…
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SiO2-deposited discoloration
Last week, Lingyun and I deposited 30nm SiO2 onto both sides of wafers 335, 341 and 345. Unfortunately, these wafers weren’t in too good shape, so there are only a few intact slits without pinholes. I then took a few…
W613: Retest of Stability in Cell Culture Media
I recently repeated a chemical stability test of RTPed (5 min in Ar at 800C) samples from W613, which has the 30 nm pnc-Si layer. In this study I used DMEM +10% FBS as the culture media without cells. Previously…
Rhodamine transport in transwells
I finished the first experiment to look at rhodamine transport across commercial transwell membranes. I was mainly interested if there would be enough transport into the basolateral chamber to measure the rhodamine with the spec. Experimental details: both chambers in…
Electrophoretic Cell Update
We were worried that Friday’s experiments were giving us a false positive results. If the electrophoresis breaks the membrane, then we’d expect to see the rhodamine rush through just like it was in our experiments. It’s too hard to view…
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More on porosity vs. position
Last week I took a series of TEM images from all but one position on wafer 638. Below are the TEMs, histograms, and porosities vs. distance from center plots. “Xpos”, “xneg”, “ypos”, “yneg” indicate which axis the images were taken…
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